Kali Linux

The CAN bus (Controller Area Network bus) is a central network that a vehicle communicates with its components. We can think of this in regard to the fact that the vehicle has many functions that operate via electrical signals. The car has door locks, a speedo

i3 is a tiling window manager for Linux and BSD systems. In this blog post, Arszilla gives a walk through on how he created his custom Kali i3-gaps ISO.

One of the designers on the Kali Linux team shares his top tips and tools to customize Kali Linux. Dig in under the hood with Daniel Ruiz de Alegría.

The time has come for yet another Kali ARM image release with new and updated images. Our collection of supported ARM hardware grows constantly with new images from Raspberry Pi 3, Banana Pi and Odroid-C2, with the latter being our first real arm64 image. We'r

A while back we introduced the idea of Kali Linux Customization by demonstrating the Kali Linux ISO of Doom. Our scenario covered the installation of a custom Kali configuration which contained select tools required for a remote vulnerability assessment. The

With the recent release of Kali Rolling 2016.1 completed, we've gone ahead and updated our custom Kali VMware, VirtualBox, and ARM images. Here's a few news items and updates that we have regarding these images for those who prefer to get them pre-built.

With Kali 2.0 now released, we wanted to share a few post install procedures we find ourselves repeating over and over, in the hopes that you will find them useful as well. We've also slapped in some answers to common questions we've been getting. Here is our

Last years event was a rousing success, with many attendees staying all day long and working through the multiple exercises. We had such a great time, we wanted to do it again. This is a great chance to get hands on with Kali 2.0, learning the cutting edge fea

Kali Linux Features Here at Offensive Security, we tend to use Kali Linux in unconventional ways – often making use of some really amazing features that Kali Linux has to offer. One of these interesting use-cases includes booting instances of Kali Linux Live

With the advent of smaller, faster ARM hardware such as the new Raspberry Pi 2 (which now has a Kali image built for it), we've been seeing more and more use of these small devices as "throw-away hackboxes". While this might be a new and novel technology, ther

One of the markings of the 1.0.7 Kali release was the introduction of Kali Live USB LUKS encrypted persistent storage, on which we further elaborated in one of our previous blog posts. However, we're not done yet with USB persistent storage as more features in

The Kali Linux NetHunter platform has many hidden features which we still haven't brought to light. One of them is the DriveDroid application and patch set, which have been implemented in NetHunter since v1.0.2. This tool allows us to have NetHunter emulate a

Several weeks ago a request in the Kali forums prompted us to look at the integration of the Adafruit 2.8in TFT touch screen for Kali Linux. A few weeks and much less hair later, we are happy to announce the availability of this image in our Offensive Security

It's been a week since our release of the Kali Linux NetHunter, and the feedback is amazing. A NetHunter community has sprung up from nowhere, and the forums and github pages are really active. We're completely stoked about this community response, and are eag

A few days ago, we had the opportunity to deploy a rogue access point that would steal user credentials using a fake, captive web portal, and provide MITM'd Internet services via 3G. We needed reliability and scalability in our environment as there would poten

For the past 6 months, we've been busy silently developing an advanced Kali Linux course the likes of which has not yet been seen in the industry. This set of in-depth, practical workshops focuses on the Kali operating system itself, demonstrating some of its